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After EWS: Writing Goals for High School

Exploring the World through Story takes students from foundational writing skills like oral narration, copywork, and dictation, through sentence- and paragraph-level composition, and on to three-, four-, and five-paragraph essays. What writing skills should high school students learn after completing EWS? There are three additional writing goals to consider for high school students, especially those…

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Using EWS in High School

One of the great strengths of homeschooling is that it gives parents the ability to tailor their children’s education to their individual needs. Although Exploring the World through Story was originally designed as a K-8 program, placement is flexible; the texts in the lower levels appeal to wide range of ages, and the upper levels…

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FAQ: Can I combine levels of EWS?

Because each level of EWS is carefully designed to build writing skills sequentially, I do not recommend combining levels by picking and choosing individual lessons. If your student needs to make more rapid progress to get up to grade level, consider accelerating through entire levels by doing more lessons per week. In levels A-F, students…

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TLDR: What are Wisdom Tales?

Wisdom tales are teaching stories that affirm cultural values—often of a religious or moral nature—through the medium of imaginative narratives. The category of wisdom tales encompasses sacred stories from the whole range of the world’s spiritual traditions, ancient and modern. It includes scriptural narratives as well as stories sometimes designated as myths or pious legends.…